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Routledge/Bips Persian Studies: Politics of Culture in Iran : Anthropology Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)

This first full-length study on the history of Iranian anthropology this book charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth century within the context of Iranian society and politics. This first full-length study of the... more

Routledge Revivals: Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals) : A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology (Hardcover)

First published in 1976 this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group with their... more

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies: A Sociology of Japanese Youth : From Returnees to NEETs (Paperback)

This book puts forth a sociology of Japanese youth problems showing that the Japanese media draw on an equally if not more perplexing gallery of social categories when it discusses youth than affluent Western societies such as the US or UK and that... more

Routledge Studies in Religion: Shared Idioms Sacred Symbols and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia (Series #11) (Hardcover)

This work focuses on processes of articulating identity. The notions of shared idioms and sacred symbols shaping this volume suggest both a search for common ground and boundary-drawing processes. Individual chapters locate sites of these modes and the... more

Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies: Life Illness and Death in Contemporary South Asia : Living through the Age of Hope and Precariousness (Hardcover)

This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life ageing illness and death. It will be of interest to anthropology sociology history medical and... more

Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies: Syria s Kurds : History Politics and Society (Paperback)

Jordi Tejel presents - combining different disciplines such as history sociology and anthropology - a new understanding of the dynamics leading to the consolidation of a Kurdish minority awareness in contemporary Syria. The book explores in particular... more

Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies: Indian Economic Growth in Historical Perspective : The Roots of Development (Hardcover)

This book investigates the roots of rapid economic growth of India in recent decades by exploring the late colonial period. This book by the late Haruka Yanagisawa will be of interest to researchers in social&economic history sociology anthropology&... more

Studies in Environmental Anthropology: Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and Its Transformations : Critical Anthropological Perspectives (Paperback)

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their... more

Studies in Anthropology and History: Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries : Social Categories and Lived Identity in the Yucatan (Series #25) (Hardcover)

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries explores the Maya of Yucatan the Maya of academic institutions and the Maya of the tourist industry. It examines the... more

Routledge Research in Gender and Society: Transnational Migration Media and Identity of Asian Women : Diasporic Daughters (Series #30) (Hardcover)

Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications sociology cultural studies and anthropology this volume provides an empirically grounded and theoretically insightful investigation into the mediated identies of women in the East... more